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On May 16, as the first truckload of methylcyclohexane arrived at the premises of Sinopec Guangxi Petrochemical Company, the first batch of materials needed for the transformation and upgrading of Guangxi Petrochemical’s refining and chemical processing operations was successfully delivered to the site. A total of 2,500 tons of methylcyclohexane were supplied to the plant this time, which serves as an important raw material for the 2 million tons per year diesel adsorption separation unit. This device employs an \"oil reduction and purification\" technology developed based on the concept of \"molecular engineering\", enabling the high-purity separation of diesel fractions. Using hydrogenated refined diesel as raw material, the unit employs four units with high integration levels and complex processes, namely adsorption and stripping, to supply the resulting adsorbed non-aromatics to the ethylene cracking unit, while the adsorbed heavy aromatics are used to increase the production of high-value products such as naphtha and propylene. Once put into operation, the facility will play a key role in helping Guangxi Petrochemical shift from a \"fuel-oriented\" business model to one focused on \"chemical products and organic materials\", thereby significantly enhancing the company’s core competitiveness. At present, the device has completed its pre-commissioning and has entered the stage of joint commissioning. To ensure the smooth arrival of the first batch of raw materials, Guangxi Petrochemical Company conducted comprehensive tests on the smart factory’s supply chain, logistics, and metering systems, and carried out practical evaluations of the routes for materials entering and leaving the factory as well as the processes for bringing starting materials into the facility. This served as a thorough rehearsal for the future arrival of other bulk materials. The successful arrival of the first batch of raw materials at the plant represents an important milestone in the transformation and upgrading project of integrated petrochemical production in Guangxi. It is understood that the overall progress of the project construction is currently over 95%, and it has entered the phase of finalization work, as well as the \"three inspections and four determinations\" for the equipment, along with preliminary testing. The project is scheduled to be fully completed by the end of June, with operations to begin in October. The completion and operation of this project will help Guangxi develop a petrochemical industry cluster worth trillions of yuan, playing an important role in advancing the construction of the new land-sea corridor in the western region as well as in enhancing the regional economic strength and industrial competitiveness. On June 24, 2022, a public notice was issued regarding the acceptance of the environmental impact assessment report for Guangxi Petrochemical’s integration and transformation project. The project involves building an ethylene production facility with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per year, along with related downstream units, on top of Guangxi Petrochemical’s existing refinery capacity of 10 million tons per year in crude oil processing, thereby achieving integrated transformation and upgrading of the refining and petrochemical industries. The refining complex relies on the existing 30 main production units; it will construct a diesel adsorption and dearomatization unit with an annual capacity of 2 million tons, as well as a carbon dioxide recovery unit with an annual capacity of 400,000 tons (including a catalytic dry gas carbon dioxide recovery unit with an annual capacity of 100,000 tons and a carbon dioxide recovery unit with an annual capacity of 400,000 tons, both to be built in the chemical industry zone). Two of the main production units will be shut down. Upon completion of the project, the overall processing flow in the refining area remains unchanged, and the product mix for refined products stays as it is; however, the annual production of gasoline and diesel will decrease, while high-quality raw materials will be supplied to the downstream ethylene plants. Fourteen new chemical processing units have been built in the chemical sector, including an ethylene plant with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per year, a hydroprocessing unit for pyrolysis gasoline/styrene extraction combined facility with a capacity of 550,000 tons per year, a butadiene extraction plant with a capacity of 180,000 tons per year, MTBE/butene-1 plants with capacities of 100,000/60,000 tons per year respectively, an aromatic extraction plant with a capacity of 350,000 tons per year, a full-density polyethylene plant (FDPE) with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year, a high-density polyethylene plant (HDPE) with a capacity of 300,000 tons per year, a tubular ethylene-vinyl acetate plant (EVA) with a capacity of 300,000 tons per year, a batch-type ethylene-vinyl acetate plant (H-EVA) with a capacity of 100,000 tons per year, a polypropylene plant (PP) with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year, a hexene-1 plant with a capacity of 50,000 tons per year, a propylene oxide/styrene plant (PO/SM) with capacities of 270,000/600,000 tons per year respectively, a polystyrene plant (PS) with a capacity of 300,000 tons per year, and integrated SSBR/SBS production facilities with capacities of 120,000/80,000 tons per year respectively. These units process various types of pyrolysis feedstocks derived from the refining sector to produce key chemical products such as high-density polyethylene (HDPE), linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), polypropylene (PP), butadiene, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), butene-1, hexene-1, solvated styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS), propylene oxide (PO), styrene (SM), and polystyrene (PS). At the same time, the plant’s environmental protection measures, storage and transportation systems, as well as utility systems will be newly constructed, upgraded, or made use of existing facilities based on the process flow.